Essential Ear Training - Feeling the Minor Scale

Learn to hear and feel each degree of the minor scale in a melodic context. This is essential training for developing an accurate musical ear!

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Chapters:
00:00 - Musical intro
01:18 - How it works
06:15 - Degrees against the drone
24:17 - Listening in a new key
26:22 - Comparing minor and major degrees
29:17 - "Music with subtitles"
30:36 - How you can help

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[maxkonyi]

Sonofield is a real-time harmonic visualizer. It displays all the relevant information about the chords and melodies you play on your MIDI controller in a visually intuitive way. The version I'm using in this video is just a simple prototype...

[misoduricaa]

The spotify long format for training is a great idea

[JAYDUBYAH]

Your teaching is so strong because of your immersion in the sound/feeling quality—which is beautiful. But I also wanna acknowledge how careful you are with your language to both not create/perpetuate confusion, but also to keep the immediacy of experiential space open.

I hope a lot of people get to benefit and that this rewards you handsomely.

[acebinko]

Wow! Wow! Wow! I have listened to the Major video in the background many times over. Just earlier today, I drove an hour to drop some family memorabilia with a family member and her newborn, and drove an hour back. I had the Major video playing in the background while humming, and I feel I have come very far. I signed up for the waitlist when I got back and was wondering when you would explore the other degrees. I can't believe a few short hours later this video drops. Thank you! We really appreciate the work you put into your videos!

[dewive]

For training, I think it’s interesting to play the same note on 2 or 3 different octaves at once, to make sure we get familiar with the feeling of the note and not the way they sound because of their pitch (high or low).
When I play the same note on different octaves at the same time, I can really extract the feeling of the note, there is no doubt that it’s the same number even if it’s a mix of high and low pitches

[jakestewartmusic]

This format is great; I love to just put these on for meditative practice.
Would love to see this series continue with more unusual scales, too - whole tone, diminished, augmented, etc. These are often more difficult to 'feel' musically

[cultivatelife]

Max is always doing it BIG for the music community!
This one helped clear up some confusion with the feeling/familiarity aspect of the interval.
I understand what you mean by harmonically similar now.
The visual asesthetics with a black background was clean and easy to follow along.
I'd like to see a sequel with harmonic intervals and you're approach to them for a possible future video.

[VortexSC]

Just discovered your Major Scale video yesterday, now your Minor scale one just got recommanded to me. Too nice :)
Thank you for your work !

[ilyas]

Thank you for being one of the few good theory/ear training channels on youtube

[josephandrosky]

Yea, you keep us motivated and growing as musicians, thank you !!!

[Hennimore]

Just wanted to leave a comment of appreciation here. I have been trying to get into ear training, and your videos are by far the best learning material on the topic that I have found. This "feeling" approach makes so much sense and has made interval recognition finally click for me. Thanks a lot, and keep it up!

[colognialist]

so great that you're back musical wizard.

[LiamRobot]

This is seriously amazing. The best explanation of ear training i've heard on Youtube, and the best execution. Love the drone in the background. Just subbed

[massimozart]

Watching these types of videos over the past month has rewired my perspectives and approaches when it comes to ear training. Thank you so much, Max.
I’m also really looking forward to Sonofield :))

[JaraNietoDiego]

Extremely helpful stuff ❤ Please make more videos along these lines! I would pay for a practical series of "audio drills" that you could listen to over and over with emphasis on different degrees or even micro-melodies over different modes. 👌🏼🙏🏼

[sebgra]

Jacob Collier must have watched your videos to be such a genius as a musician. In fact the two of you are able to put tons of music theory in emotions and make it this way possible to understand.

[kazaeza]

Can't wait for your app to release!

[YaBoiiiiiiiii]

OMG! Ive been waiting for you to make more videos like this! Thank you!

[TheHBaer]

This is amazingly helpful, Max!! Your approach to ear training is exactly what I have been looking for. Inspiring and such beautiful pacing. Thank you!!!!

[EricWestphal]

These videos are so good! Thank you for doing this. It's exactly what I needed for ear training.